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<span class=large>THE FIRST BOOK OF NEPHI</span><br/> HIS REIGN AND MINISTRY
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CHAPTER 20
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The Lord reveals his purposes to Israel—They have been chosen in the furnace of affliction and are to go forth from Babylon—Compare <a href="isa/48">Isaiah 48</a>.  Between 588 and 570 <span class='small'>B.C.</span>
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 48: 1 (1-22)."><span class='smallcaps'>Hearken</span></a> and hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, or out of the waters of <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/20/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Baptism; TG Conversion.">baptism</a>, who <sup>c</sup><a href="1_ne/20/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 6: 13.">swear</a> by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, yet they swear <sup>d</sup><a href="1_ne/20/1d" mark="d" type="A" title="Jer. 4: 2; Jer. 5: 2.">not</a> in truth nor in righteousness.
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Nevertheless, they call themselves of the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/2a" mark="a" type="C" title="Isa. 52: 1; TG Jerusalem.">holy</a> city, but they do <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/20/2b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Hypocrisy; TG Prophets, Rejection of.">not</a> stay themselves upon the God of Israel, who is the Lord of Hosts; yea, the Lord of Hosts is his name.
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Behold, I have declared the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/3a" mark="a" type="C" title="Isa. 42: 9; Isa. 46: 10 (9-10); TG God, Foreknowledge of.">former</a> things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I showed them.  I did show them suddenly.
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And I did it because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Stiffneckedness.">neck</a> is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
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And I have even from the beginning declared to thee; before it came to pass I <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Omniscience of; TG Idolatry.">showed</a> them thee; and I showed them for fear lest thou shouldst say—Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image hath commanded them.
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Thou hast seen and heard all this; and will ye <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 9: 16.">not</a> declare them?  And that I have showed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
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They are created now, and not from the beginning, even before the day when thou heardest them not they were declared unto thee, lest thou shouldst say—Behold I knew them.
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Yea, and thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time thine ear was not opened; for I knew that thou wouldst deal very treacherously, and wast called a <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 58: 3.">transgressor</a> from the womb.
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Nevertheless, for my <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 12: 22; Ps. 23: 3; 1 Jn. 2: 12.">name’s</a> sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain from thee, that I cut thee not off.
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For, behold, I have refined thee, I have chosen thee in the furnace of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/10a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ex. 1: 11 (10-11); 1 Ne. 17: 25; TG Affliction.">affliction</a>.
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For mine own sake, yea, for mine own sake will I do this, for I will not suffer my <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 44: 26.">name</a> to be polluted, and I will <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/20/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 42: 8; Moses 4: 1 (1-4).">not</a> give my glory unto another.
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Hearken unto me, O Jacob, and Israel my called, for I am he; I am the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/12a" mark="a" type="C" title="Rev. 1: 17; Rev. 22: 13; TG Jesus Christ, Firstborn; TG Jesus Christ—Jehovah.">first</a>, and I am also the last.
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Mine hand hath also <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/13a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ps. 102: 25; TG God the Father—Jehovah; TG Jesus Christ, Creator.">laid</a> the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens.  I <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/20/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 148: 8 (5-10).">call</a> unto them and they stand up together.
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All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; who among them hath declared these things unto them?  The Lord hath loved him; yea, and he will <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 8: 56; D&C 64: 31; D&C 76: 3.">fulfil</a> his word which he hath declared by them; and he will do his pleasure on <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/20/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Babylon.">Babylon</a>, and his arm shall come upon the Chaldeans.
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Also, saith the Lord; I the Lord, yea, I have spoken; yea, I have called <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 45: 1 (1-4).">him</a> to declare, I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous.
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Come ye near unto me; I have not spoken in <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 45: 19.">secret</a>; from the beginning, from the time that it was declared have I spoken; and the Lord God, and his <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/20/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG God, Spirit of.">Spirit</a>, hath sent me.
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And thus saith the Lord, thy <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ—Jehovah.">Redeemer</a>, the Holy One of Israel; I have sent him, the Lord thy God who teacheth thee to profit, who <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/20/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Guidance, Divine.">leadeth</a> thee by the way thou shouldst go, hath done it.
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O that thou hadst hearkened to my <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 8: 5.">commandments</a>—then had thy <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/20/18b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Blessings of; TG Peace of God.">peace</a> been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.
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Thy <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 22: 17 (15-19); Isa. 48: 19 (18-22); Hosea 1: 10.">seed</a> also had been as the sand; the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 51: 6 (6, 44-45); D&C 133: 5 (5-14).">Go</a> ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/20/20b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Bondage of, in Other Lands.">Chaldeans</a>, with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter to the end of the earth; say ye: The Lord hath redeemed his <sup>c</sup><a href="1_ne/20/20c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 44: 1 (1-2, 21); Isa. 45: 4.">servant</a> Jacob.
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And they <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 107: 33 (33-37); Isa. 41: 18 (17-20).">thirsted</a> not; he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_ne/20/21b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 17: 6; Num. 20: 11; 1 Ne. 17: 29; 2 Ne. 25: 20; D&C 133: 26 (26-30).">rock</a> for them; he clave the rock also and the waters gushed out.
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And notwithstanding he hath done all this, and greater also, there is no <sup>a</sup><a href="1_ne/20/22a" mark="a" type="C" title="Rom. 3: 17; TG Peace of God.">peace</a>, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
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